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Childhood Trauma and the Faith Maturity of Seventh-day Adventist Pastors and Seminarians
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Unfortunately, Childhood Trauma is a fact of life. For instance, children lose parents/guardians through death or divorce. Children grow up in impoverished situations. Children have parents who suffer from mental illness and/or commit suicide. In addition, more unfortunately, some children are mistreated, neglected, and/or abused. The long-lasting impact of Childhood Trauma includes increased morbidity and mortality, and decreased opportunities for prosperity. This research sought to establish a statistical relationship between Childhood Trauma and Faith Maturity. Childhood Trauma has been demonstrated to affect attachment processes in children and, since religion is an attachment process and God is an attachment figure, it follows that Childhood Trauma has the potential to affect an individual’s relationship with God.
Method
This research measured the prevalence of Childhood Trauma among those preparing for ministry, as well as those already serving in pastoral ministry. Next, a quantitative nonexperimental correlation research design examined whether Childhood Trauma was correlated with Faith Maturity. The independent variable Childhood Trauma was grouped in multiple ways and the means of the dependent variable Faith Maturity were compared with one-way ANOVAs. In addition, the respondents were grouped by demographic information (gender, age, race, marital status, and educational background), and their means were compared to see if there was any interaction.
Results
This research found a negative correlation between Childhood Trauma and Faith Maturity. While the results followed what was theorized in the literature review, as the study was conducted with pastors and seminarians, it is significant that despite their theological training, higher Faith Maturity scores and practice of spiritual disciplines (prayer, Bible study, etc.), there was still a negative relationship between Childhood Trauma and their Faith Maturity. This research found no interaction on the basis of demographics.
Conclusion
The results of this research suggest the need to create trauma-informed pastors, church administrators, and churches. This research needs to be repeated with a larger sample and with a more diverse population to determine whether the negative correlation would be greater with a sample that includes those less trained, with lower average Faith Maturity scores and a less frequent practice of spiritual disciplines (prayer, Bible study, etc.), and with a larger, more diverse sample, would demographics show any interaction
Group-Based Interventions Using a Low-Fat Diabetes Diet to Improve Self-Efficacy and HBA1C Levels in African American Type 2 Diabetics
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Type two diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a chronic medical condition of impaired glucose metabolism that has significantly impacted the health of Americans. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), T2DM is the seventh leading cause of death making up over 270,000 deaths in 2017 (CDC, 2020a). There are noted disparities among African Americans who are disproportionately affected by T2DM more than Caucasians. African Americans account for 13% of the population in the United States of which 11.7% are diagnosed with T2DM as compared to Caucasians who make up 76.3% of the population of which 7.5% have T2DM (United States Census Bureau, 2021; Haw et al., 2021). Minorities such as African Americans are least likely to achieve glycemic control and are greater than 50% more likely to suffer from the complications of T2DM than their Caucasian counterpart (Canedo et al., 2018; Cunningham et al., 2018). It is projected that without strategic interventions T2DM diabetes will affect one out of six Americans and one out of four African Americans by 2060 (Lin et al. 2020). Traditional diabetes education programs have not been effective in lowering hemoglobin A1C levels in African Americans (Lynch et al., 2019; Cunningham et al., 2018). Barriers include poor food choices, poor self-efficacy in making dietary changes, culture, and the social rewards attached to food. It is the burden of healthcare providers to develop creative ways to confront these barriers to improve dietary practices and build selfefficacy for better glycemic control.
Purpose Statement
The purpose of this project was to improve dietary self-management efficacy and blood glucose levels through the implementation of group-based lunch-and-learn educational sessions that emphasize a low-saturated fat diabetes diet consisting of whole grains, legumes, fruits, and vegetables.
Method
A convenience sample of African Americans with T2DM visiting the Benton Harbor Health Center participated in a quantitative, quasi-experimental pilot study that utilized a weekly 45-minute lunch-and-learn educational session emphasizing a low-fat, low carbohydrate diet for six weeks. Pre- and post-intervention self-efficacy and hemoglobin A1c values were measured.
Results
A paired t-test was used to evaluate whether the pre-intervention mean self efficacy for healthy diet scores and HbA1c levels improved post-intervention. The results demonstrated a statistically significant improvement in self-efficacy scores (p =.002). However, the HbA1c levels showed no improvement, but an increase post-intervention (p= 0.306).
Significance
With the increasing prevalence of T2DM and the disease burden from its complications in African Americans, practitioners must use a different approach to traditional diabetes self-management education and support (DSMES) that place emphasis on increasing dietary self-efficacy which is a predictor of behavioral change. The data from this project supports the lunch-and-learn format is an experiential method that helps the T2D to translate diabetes knowledge into real-life application through improved self-efficacy which can ultimately improve glycemic control. Achieving glycemic control leads to improved morbidity and mortality rates, lower healthcare costs and improved quality of life
Teaching Shante Curtelia Dominique Ophelia Brown Johnson : an Autoethnography of a Black Male, Seventh-day Adventist, Jazz Avant-Garde Artist
Get PDFLeadership is part and parcel of societies and cultures. Leadership research can provide understanding that in turn provides knowledge, resources and growth opportunities for leaders. Leadership may be understood from a personal perspective as being bound up with identity. As I examine myself as a person and as a leader, I realize that several identities are prominent: Black male identity, Christian identity, jazz avant-garde artistic identity. Each of those identities have features that contribute to leadership.
The purpose of this study is to describe and explore leadership experiences of a Black male, from the Seventh-day Adventist Christian tradition who is a musical artist in the jazz avant-garde. The research is submitted for improvement of my own leadership and to contribute to the field of leadership. In particular, this study seeks to resonate and amplify voices of Black leaders by employing creative methods to understand practice in the contexts of society and culture.
The methodological frame for the study is qualitative. More specifically, I use autoethnography to facilitate personal narrative inquiry into leadership and identities in social contexts. The study examines multifaceted, intersecting identities through layered accounts of my experience, poetry, and music. This research represents the complexities of identity in culture in ways that are at the same time personally reflexive and accessible for wider audiences, especially those that might otherwise see themselves as undervalued, if not devalued, in traditional academic discourses.
The findings are artistic articulations and performances that serve as a reflective chamber for self examination and leadership growth. Those articulations are invitations to reflexive scholarship in broad terms and specifically for leaders. Leaders can find in this study creative research methods and ways of thinking about identity and culture that prompt positive possibilities for leadership growth in education and in all fields
Reimagining Freshmen Library Orientation at the Forde Library, USC
Get PDFStriving “Beyond Excellence” is the motto of the University of the Southern Caribbean, and the Forde Library strives to embody such by constantly reviewing and upgrading the resources and services offered to their community. One of the main drivers of such a review process in the past three years has been the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced many academic libraries to reimagine their service offerings and access points. The Forde Library was no stranger to this, as the pandemic saw a fundamental shift in the delivery mode of Library orientation using technology and conferencing software. This quantitative study focuses on the Undergraduate Library Orientation Feedback Survey, disseminated for first- and second-year undergraduate students at the University of the Southern Caribbean for the 1st Semester (September) of four academic years spanning 2018 to 2021. These library sessions were done as part of the Academic Writing I course, executed in collaboration with the School of Distance Education and the School of Education and Humanities respectively, all underscoring the critical role that the library can play in a student’s academic journey. Findings revealed that student satisfaction and understanding remained mainly positive from pre-pandemic levels to during the pandemic. Key recommendations called for more significant marketing efforts, training and student-centered learning activities integrated into the virtual orientation
The Student Movement Volume 108 Issue 6: Tayloring the Future: Andrews Inaugurates New President
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Filipino Pride and the Bayanihan Spirit, Savannah Tyler
Intangible Impressions of Spiritual Life at Andrews, Savannah Tyler
Meet the Majors: Part 2, Reagan McCain
From Underdog to gRad-dog: A graduate student\u27s perspective on the transition from undergraduate to graduate school, Anna Rybachek
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
A New Chapter in Seasons, Nailea Soto
A Report on the Eras Tour Movie, Nate Miller
Gilmore Girls: The Downfall of College Rory, Audrey Lim
How to Enter Music Circles on Campus, Reagan McCain
NEWS
Armenia - Azerbaijan Conflict, Katie Davis
The Inauguration, Kiheon Chung
Noche Latina: A Night to Celebrate Hispanic Heritage, Melissa Moore
Understanding Tomorrow Today: The Fall 2023 Kingman Lecture, Jonathan Clough
IDEAS
My Struggle with Secular Music, Kiheon Chung
No News Is Good News - But Here\u27s Some Good News!, Reagan Westerman
Pakistan\u27s First Miss Universe Winner, Katie Davis
PULSE
American Melodies in Harmony with the AUSO, Aiko J. Ayala Rios
Celebrating Filipino American History Month, Brooklyn Anderson
Why We Can\u27t Seem to Get Enough Sleep, Alyssa Caruthers
LAST WORD
Do it For The Plot, Lily Burkehttps://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/sm-108/1005/thumbnail.jp
Artificial Intelligence: Its Impact on Christian Education
Get PDFIn recent years, the world has witnessed a resounding revolution in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and today there is no field where AI is not employed. These institutions have a major role in developing policies, curricula, and strategies to keep pace with the modern artificial revolution. The aim of this research is to find out how current developments in this ��eld are likely to impact education in the future, and how such developments in Edtech might impact on future graduates, colleges, universities, societies, and cultures